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John DeCamp continues:
In addition, I am the lawyer for the National Child Abuse Defense and Resource Center of Nebraska, which fights against false accusations of child abuse, and is made up of adults who have been falsely accused of child abuse.
By contrast with these cases of fantasy, I can say without reservation that in one Franklin-related instance after another, there was sufficient evidence
and corroboration available for anyone seeking it, to back up the victims' tales.
My own recollections and considered judgments are just a fraction of the huge record of the Franklin case.
The files of the Legislature's main investigator, the late Gary Caradori, testify to the mass of leads law enforcement would not pursue.
Documentary evidence presented in this book, never before made public, makes it possible to contrast the assurances of local and state officials that there was little or no Franklin-related abuse, with what those agencies had in their own files.
The chapters of this book dealing with Franklin are based, apart from my direct experience, strictly on documents available and documented facts.
I do not claim to know the accuracy or veracity of every statement made by every witness or other recorded in these documents. I do claim, however, that the statements and the evidence were officially presented exactly as described.
Readers can draw their own conclusions, as to what is or is not believable. I have been very careful to present only material and documents which I can legally and properly, in my opinion, make available.
I also must state, that I received none of the Franklin committee documentation from the committee's chairman, Senator Loran Schmit, other than what I was entitled to as attorney for Paul Bonacci.
Some people inevitably will claim, as they did when I issued the DeCamp memo in January 1990, that Senator Schmit, whose private attorney I am, "leaked" everything to me.
I said then, and I say now, that nothing could be further from the truth. Neither is anything whatsoever from grand jury documents-some of which I had access to-presented here, because I am not allowed to disclose this information.
I wish I could. I wish everything about Franklin could be made public. Then, the public could judge even more thoroughly about what is true and what is false.
I believe that sunshine and exposure of all facts from all agencies that have information about Franklin would establish the truth of the stories of drug abuse, child abuse, pedophilia, abuse of positions of public trust, cover-up by institutions of government, and, most tragic, involvement in this conduct and later cover-up by some of our most respected and wealthiest citizens.
I believe that the record must get out into the open, to the extent possible, and that the public has to share the information.
Otherwise, truth becomes whatever those who control the institutions of government, and the press, say it is.
Benjamin Franklin said, “Whoever would overthrow the liberty of a nation must begin by subduing the freeness of speech."
For a textbook example of how this can be done, I would say: Come to Nebraska! Watch how when you totally control the press, when you own the press, you can make truth be whatever you want, you can make villains out of heroes, sinners out of saints, and vice ...... versa.
In this book, therefore, much of the material has been kept in its documentary form-the words of investigators, state senators, victim-witnesses, parents, police, or FBI, as recorded in police documents, eyewitness reports, testimony to the Legislature, published interviews, and so on.
I will allow these documents to speak for themselves. Spelling and punctuation have been left as they appear in documents, except for minor punctuation changes in transcripts. Interpolations in quoted material are denoted by brackets [].
When the name of a victim or other person is not his or her real name, it is marked with an asterisk * the first time it appears.